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An even higher inflation and a brake on global growth. In this way, we will pay for the surge in the cost of shipments by sea, unless the freight rates soon return to pre-pandemic values, in practice reducing by more than two thirds compared to current levels: a scenario that however seems decidedly unlikely.
The alarm was raised by Unctad, a UN body that deals with trade and development, which in the latest annual report on maritime transport tried to estimate the possible impact …